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The poverty of the ethnography of poverty / Loïc Wacquant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wacquant, Loïc J. D., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Standardized Title:
- Misère de l'ethnographie de la misère. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Urban poor--United States--Social conditions.
- Urban poor.
- African American neighborhoods.
- Urban anthropology--Methodology.
- Urban anthropology.
- Social surveys--United States.
- Social surveys.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- In 'The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty', Loïc Wacquant dissects how sociologists who carry out field studies of the poor write about race, class, and morality in the city's underbelly; the blinders and biases that affect their research and how to overcome them; and how to become aware of these biases and develop a better meshing of theory and research.
- Notes:
- Translated from the French.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 16, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-780404-7
- 0-19-780402-0
- OCLC:
- 1504685054
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